Philadelphia Manual Training School - US Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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- ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTSW ES, Fred dear, your figure is very fine, all but the shape, which is altogether too limberg you will lose part of yourself if you are not really careful. We suggest taking a bracer, but leave the kind to your own excellent judgment. W'e would like to give you a gentle reminder to leave some hair on Law- rence's head the next time he pours water down your neck. In answer to your request to hunt up a wife, we have found one who will fill the bill, and our charge will only be 22.50, as she has auburn hair and sports a turned-up nose. She will very useful in keeping away customers from the stamp trade in which you are interested, only don't let the stamps see her, or they will change color and look like counterfeits. ' Fred, take our advice in regard to Kathleen, and go and see her when all the folks are in Boston. Your mustache will not grow until you have shaved, and you must keep your face clean shaved, even if you are obliged to use a can-opener.-Relzlgzbzzs Ed. Rice, you are certainly very short, but you could be shorter, so console yourself and make your pompadour a little lower, so you will not look so top-heavy all the time. We absolutely for- bid you laughing ever again in your short life 3 some day your face will fall completely apart, or get tied in a knot, from which it will be hard to extricate itself You are entirely too swift with your bookkeeping and should not allow foreign influence to move your pencil. If you will call at the office we will show you a patent invented by Us for short people. It is a mechan- ism by which you simply take hold of yourself and lift, and you are there. Hoping you will take our advice and give us a call, we will then promise not to give away any more on you.-Ed df 5216. Mr. CH-L-S,-YES, you are giddy, my dear boy. A charm- ing little dudelet, with your little collarlet, iglovelets and 90

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Ill Ditto. At last these worthies are brought to a sense of good order, and the play ends until they start again, which is not very long. This play of one act is to show more clearly the working of the Club-its services, modes of worship, etc.-than could be done by writing an exposition on it. About twice a week the Club gives its annual supper at dinner- time, These are paid for by the members Qwhen they can't get out of itj on the jersey plan. Though this method is indulged in, still there is a rumor about that one ofthe Club is about sixty cents ahead, which circumstance is very strangeyas the one who is not the one ahead is not the kind of a duffahu to play for a Reuben Hayseed. The motto ofthe Club, written on the immortal tablets of their brains QFD, is worthy of notice. It is: You go in first. This is rather signiheant, but the brightest members of the Class will readily perceive what is meant. I ' In order not t-o make the Club members conceited we will leave them to their own reflections and past sins, hoping when the Alumni meet they will have lost all desire to monkey. S9

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canelet, should be pickled in alcohol. Some fears have been ex- pressed that you are becoming intemperate, and when at the telephone often call, Connect me with the brewery. My dear, poker is a bad and sinful game. MR. SCO-T.-Yes, you are a jolly dog-so funny, so amusing, so instructive, all the latest Argus jokes No, you had better not attempt to teach a Sunday-school class. I MR. 'A-D-S--N.-Your trip to Washington was a very aqueous one, certainly, yet charming-but almost too long for publication in our columns. We are very proud of you. What a horribly immoral place Washington is! You can keep looking back to your journey through your whole life. MR. AY-Es.-We are sorry to hear you have learned to play Poker and Napoleon. They are very sinful games, and not indulged in by the upper-crust. The Pool is a very bad place to stake your money. MR. C-R-Is.-How unfeeling this hard world is. Your genius CPD is not appreciated. Why didn't they make you Class presi- dent? I really don't know, but you ran the N. I-l. S., although it was not very much to run, or very well run at that, but that wasn't your fault. MR. CR-MB-CK.-Glad to hear you were so successful in the tug of war-although your team generally loses, yet that is not because you are anchoring. MR. GR-NE-LD.-DO not mind it. Don't take it so to heart. What if the girls do get crushed on you. VVhat if they do try to flirt. MR. Po-T-E-Hxv-IT.-We are very sorry she busted your suspenders when she sat down on your lap. XfVe extend our sympathy to you, for it is a subject which calls for our most heartfelt feelings. lfVe will be pleased to advance you enough for a new pair. MR. L-XVRfN-E.-NO, we don't know a cheaper florist, true, it is rather expensive to pay tive cents every day for just one rose, for that amounts to 518.25 in a year-quite enough to buy your diploma. V gr